Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 7,654 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

Justin Fairfax
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Justin Edward Fairfax (1979- )
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Robert Smalls (1839-1915)
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Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Georgia (1847- )
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William Warrick Cardozo (1905-1962)

Explore Global African History

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The Riot of Bamber Bridge (1943)
Devante Malik Smith-Pelly
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Devante Malik Smith-Pelly (1992- )
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Claudio Brindis de Salas (1852-1911)
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Titanic’s Black Passenger: Creating Historical Fiction From Historical Fact

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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Remembering Sara Dunlap Jackson (1919-1991)
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Battle of Adwa (Adowa), 1896
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Defending Nikkei: Hugh MacBeth and the Japanese American Internment
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Black Freedom and Social Class in St. Louis, Missouri between the Great Depression and the Great Society

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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